A u T o N o M I A P 0 ST· POLITICAL POLITICS VOLUME Ill, NO.3, 1980 © 1980 by semiofexJ(e} Inc. set in He!ios by The Type Sat, N.Y.C. Printed by Capital City Press, Inc. ISSN 0 093 95779 T o N o M A A u T o N o M A u Sylvere Lotringsr I Christian Marazzi 8 The Return of Politics IMPOSSIBLE CLASS Giampaolo Pansa 24 Fiat Has Branded Me Mario Tronll 28 The Strategy of Refuaal """,c."",,,.,,,.,,,,,,,,",",,,,,,"ot" a,~m.", Viooo",,, """""""", G"."".w,"" a... O..... , M.,;. Sergio Bo!ogna 36 ,,0< .... ,"''';,0'"''0''''''.,,0.0' .. <;1llidOH."·""rl'"""N""""lo,,,,,. The Tribe of Moles ,-, '".''o''~"'''''''''',,=,t>M''' M.",,.,,,,,, \""~""' •• .,,"', .. ,",""," ~.'d,A""'.""" """~,,,.,,,,,,, "'SIGN J 'CcU., ..no~ .. "•• s.ol.mo", """""""", S""W","'. Toni Negri 62 "".,",:0,'" ~_" two"" '" WW Dominallon and Sabotage 5","C"."'"~''''"''''' ..... "..;.."'•• C>t~l,...a ..""', "","""'"'''.$",,,., ..,)01,'0\0< '<0'''''''6'''..,......... ,''''"",. ...." .. '""".'''''"<~''''''''. ",Go''',,', a,,,,,,,,,. 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" ",,",,'-tl~["'''''''''''''''''''''''''"' Felix Guattari 108 .""~ ... ,,..-......... , The Proliferation of Margins Paolo Virno 112 Dreemers of a Successful Ufe Eric AiUel 118 Hegel an~ the Wobblles 120 Let's Do Justice to Our Comrade P.3S Judith Malina 122 Nonviolence In Bologna Collective A f Traverso 130 Radio Alice-Free Radio Leonardo Sciascia 246 The Red Harvest Lia Magale 136 The City in the Female Gender Oresle Scalzone 248 Beyond Terrorism 3 APRIL 7 ARRESTS Toni Negri I Eugenio Scalfari 254 I, Toni Negri Bilo 148 Anatomy of Autonomy Franco Piperno 262 Unpublished Interview GAR I 172 Repression In Italy Paul Vlrilio 266 Popular Defense and Popular Assault Sergio Bologna 178 Workerlst Publications and Bios Valerio Marucci I Pino Nlcotri 274 A Brigadist Speaks Gilles De!euze 182 open LeUer to Negri's Judges 276 Dissenting Brlgadlsts Ferrucla Gambino I seth TlIel 186 ANSA Story Renaio Gurcio 282 Who Is the Traitor? Toni Negri 188 Interrogation Toni Negri 292 J'Accuse Toni Negri I Grasle Scalzone, et. al. 196 Memorandum from Prison 5 FrancO Piperno I II Male 202 FIVE The Naked Truth About Moro's Detention Madaudo I Melv!ile 300 The Aida Mora Kidnapping Franco Piperno I II Male 206 Piperno's Counterotlensive 315 Back Issues I Velsei 210 Violence of U,e State 317 Index Dario Fe 214 The Sandstorm Method 1111' Gramscl Lucio Pozzi, 1977 4 BEYOND TERRORISM Franco Piperno 220 From Terrorism to Guerrille Warfare Lucio Castellano 228 Living with Guerrilla Warfare 234 FeUx Guattari Why Italy? Paolo Virna 238 On Armed Struggle Lafranco Pace I Franco Piperno 240 The Recognition of the Armed Party Massimo Gacciari 244 Sorry, It's Exactly the Opposite -,- One day in Jal1. Two days in Jail. Thrae days in jail. Four days in Jail. Christ. Fi~e days in Introduction jaH. Sb: days in JaH, se~en. Today is my aighth day in jail. Nine days in jail. Ten days , in Jail. Ele~en days in Jail. Twel~e days in jail. The door opens and closes, opens and closes. Thlrtean days in JaU. Fourteen days In Jail. Fifteen, sl)(\een, se~enteen, eighteen. A Jail is a Jail is a Jail is a Jall, nineteen days in jail. Twonty days in jail. Twenty days already. Twenty-one, twenty-two days in Jail. Twenty­ three days in jail. Twenty-four days In Jail. Twenty-five days In Jai!. Twenty-51;..; days In Jail. Twenty·seven days In Jail. Twenty.eight days in jail. Twenty·nlne days in Jail. One month. Another twenty-nine months in jail and then i'll be free. Thirty-one days in JaiL Thlrty·two days In jaiL Thirty-three days in Jail. Thirty-four days In Jal!. Thlrty·f!ve, six, seven, eight, nine, forty days in jaiL The walls of the Jail. The ceiling of the Jail, the Jail 01 the Jell. Forty-one days in Jail. Forty· two deys In Jail. Forty-three days in jail. Forty-four - how wilt people be when I get out? - days in jail. Forty·five days In jall. Forty-six days In Jail. Forty-seven days In Jail. Forly-elght days In Jal!. Forty·nlne daya In Jail. Oh fuck ... this entire Jail. Flfty days in this fucking shltty jeil. Flfty-one days in jall. Fifty-two days In Jail. Fifty.three, fifty-four days in Jei1. Fifty.five days in Jail. Fifty-six days in Jail. Flfty-seven days In Jall. Fifty­ eight days in JaiL Fifty-nine days In Jail. Fifty_ nine days In JaiL Today there is no passage of time, Sixty days in JaiL Who knows II the others droam 01 me as much as I dream of them. Sixty-one days In Jail. Sixty-Iwo days In Jail. Sixty-three days In Jail. Sixty-four days in JaiL Sixty-five days In Jel!. Sixty-six days in Jail, Sixty-seven days In Jail. Sixty-eight days in JaiL Sixty-eighl ... slxty-alghl ... In 1968 . now I'm really out of date ... ty-nine days in Jail. Seventy days in Jail. Seventy-one days in Jail. Seventy-two dsys In Jail. Seventy-three days In Jail. Seventy-four days In Jail. Seventy-five days in Jail. Jail has Its own smell, I'U never be able to get it off me, all the soap and scent of a detergent factory wouldn't be enough to remOVe it, and everybody'li know I've been In jail. Seventy· six days in Jail. ! could explOde at any mo· ment. Seventy_nine. Eighty days In jail. In Jai! you slart to reel. Eighty.one days in Jail. In JaU you start to reeL Eighty-two days In Jail. In jail you start to reel. Eighty-three days In JaU. Eighty-four days in Jail. Eighty-five days In jail. Eighty_six days in Jail. Eighty-seven, elghly-eight, eighty.nine days in THIS ETER­ NAL JAIL. Ninety days in Jail. Now I'm busting. Ninety_one days In Jail. Ninety·two days in Jail. Nlnety·three daye in Jail. Ninety­ four days In Jail. Ninety-five days In Jail. I have diarrhea. Ninety-six days In Ja!!. Ninety­ seven days in Jail. Ninety-eight days in jail. Ninety·nlne. One hundred days in Jail. Hurray, let's break out the champagne. Very funny. 101 days In Jail. 102 days in JaU. 103 days in { Jail. 104 days In Jail. 105 days in Jail. 106 days In Jail. 107 days in Jail. loa days In Jail. 109 set side by side. Through this Halian history, we can read our own history, our The Return possible history, between the lines. Historically, Autonomy was born in the large factories of Northern Italy in the ear· of Politics Iy 50's. "Autonomy at the base" was originally devised by emlgranf workers from the South in defiance of the union bosses - backed by the Communist Party - who pretended to represent them. Autonomy soon moved beyond claims for higher wages and questioned not only labor relatlonships, but labor itself, It devised original forms of colloctive action (auto reduction, sabotage of prOduction, Sylvere Lotringerl etc.), which entailed numerous confrontations with the State. This whole theme crystallized in 1965 with the refusal of wage labor Which still remains directly tied Christian Marazzi to the struggles of the Italian Autonomy. Autonomy Is a way of acUng collectively. jt Is made up of a number of organs and fluid organizations' characterized by the refusal to separate economics from politics, and politiCS from existence. Autonomy never unWed. Diverse organizations assembled at the national level. They formed "Potere Operaio" (Worker's Power), both a group and a magazine gathering together a number of theoreticians such as Mario Tronti, Toni Negri, SergiO Bologna, Franco Piperno and Ores Ie Scalzone. Their reformulation of Marxism became seminal for THE IMPOSSIBLE The workers in Europe should declare that the whole of the autonomous movement. In 1973 the militarization of the Move· CLASS henceforth as a class thoy are a human im· ment raised a deep controversy between various currents within "Poiere Operaio". possibility, and not only, as Is customary, a The confrontation eventually led to its self-dissolution. (The State today refuses harsh and purposeless establishment. They to recognize this dlssolutlon.) Formed in 1970, the Red Brigades Were already should introduce an era of vast swarming out organizing clandestine actions in order to carry the confrontation "to the heart of from the European beehive, the like of which the State." One the other hand, various fragments from "Potere Operaio" extend· has never been experienced, and with this act of emigration In the gra.nd manner pro· ed the struggle from the factory to the dty (occupation of houses, etc.) to ground test against the machine, agelnst capital, it to the daily life of the "SOcialized worker." This majority constitutes the Italian and against the choice with Which they are Autonomy.